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		<title>Guru&#8217;s streaker past exposed as cult wins defamation case against tabloid mag</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panawave, a cult whose members dress entirely in white and deck out any areas they travel in white sheets, has won a Tokyo District Court battle against weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun for defamation.
Chino Shohokai, the parent organization of the Panawave cult, and Yuko Chino, it&#8217;s leader, were awarded 2 million yen by the court after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pana Wave probed over car checkups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police on Monday arrested an employee of a car maintenance firm in Fukui and questioned its president on suspicion it falsified safety inspections of vehicles belonging to the Pana Wave Laboratory. The police also searched the headquarters of the group in the city.
Arrested was Shojiro Kawamura, 57, an inspector of the firm.
Four vehicles belonging to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 doomsday group members fined, released in death of member</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI, Japan, Dec. 27 (Kyodo) &#8212; Five members of the Pana Wave Laboratory cult-like doomsday group were released Friday after paying 200,000 yen each in fines that a summary court ordered in connection with their assault of a member, who later died, in August in the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture.
The Fukui Summary Court&#8217;s ruling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Top Stories of 2003 &#8212; No. 9: Panawave sparks paranoia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paranoia gripped Japanese residents in April when the bizarre Panawave Laboratory group appeared and took over a stretch of road in Gifu Prefecture, covering up crash barriers and roadside trees with huge white cloths.
Members of the mysterious organization, who dressed themselves entirely in white, and wore surgical masks, claimed that electromagnetic waves were causing catastrophic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Pana Wave wrote manual on how to beat members</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pana Wave Laboratory group in Fukui, five of whose members were arrested Friday on suspicion of beating an associate professor of a Fukuoka university who died in the group&#8217;s facility in August, compiled a manual giving instructions on how to administer punishment beatings to members, police said Friday.
The police are questioning the members to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Pana Wave members held over man&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2003 07:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI (Kyodo) Five members of Pana Wave Laboratory, a sect whose members dress in white, were arrested Friday in connection with the August death of a man at their compound in the city of Fukui, police said. 
Suspected of beating 40-year-old Satoshi Chigusa on the premises are Manabu Fujimori, 42; Tateki Uchida, 59; Masahiro Suzuki, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultists nabbed for beating &#8216;electromagnetic waves&#8217; out of academic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI &#8212; Five members of the Panawave cult were arrested Friday for beating an academic with bamboo sticks to remove electromagnetic waves, police said.
The man later died in hospital from a heat stroke.
The five senior members are accused of hitting Satoshi Chigusa, an assistant professor at Fukuoka University of Education, in the back with bamboo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 members of Pana Wave cult arrested over man&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI — Five members of cult-like group Pana Wave Laboratory were arrested Friday over the death of a man in August at the group&#8217;s facilities in the city of Fukui, central Japan, police said.
In July, the Fukui prefectural police searched the group&#8217;s headquarters in connection with the death of Satoshi Chigusa, 40, an assistant professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pana Wave member dies after being found in creek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI (Kyodo) A member of the Pana Wave Laboratory sect died at a hospital Friday, having been found unconscious in a creek here earlier in the morning, firefighters said. 
The creek runs beside a building used by the sect.
The local fire department received a call around 1:50 a.m. from another member of the group who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pana Wave member dies after submersion in creek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUKUI — A member of the Pana Wave Laboratory cult-like group died Friday in a hospital to which he was taken after being found unconscious in a creek in the city of Fukui earlier in the morning, firefighters said.
The creek runs beside a building used by the Pana Wave group and the local fire department [...]]]></description>
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